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TIL that African Elephants have 4-6 sets of teeth in their lifetime, and when the last set wears down, they starve to death

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epakL TIL Philips has a special type of LED light bulb that is only available in Dubai, which is significantly more efficient, cooler running, and longer lasting than those available worldwide.
jZgp TIL: If the sun was scaled to the size of basketball; Mercury would be the size of a grain of sand-33 feet away, Earth would be the size of a BB shot-86 feet away, Jupiter would be the size of a gumball-445 feet away, and the nearest star would be another basketball-5000 miles away!
XnVP TIL Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was written by Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond
b6yv0 TIL that during World War II, was the Yellow River Break; When China destroyed their own dams & levees in a tragic attempt to create defensive water blockades. The intentional effort to thwart enemy advances led to the drowning deaths (and loss otherwise) of 400,000-500,000 Chinese civilian lives:
4k65w TIL: in 2002 amateur astronomer Bill Yeung accidentally rediscovered the 3rd stage of Apollo 12s Rocket, after NASA misscalculated its discarding burn, causing it to enter a 40 year cycle switching between sun and earth orbits.